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Announcing our $6M investment to double down on IT incident and Reliability needs

When Squadcast was founded back in 2018, we had a concise yet clear goal—we wanted to make it as easy as possible for companies to manage their IT incident and reliability needs. In the spirit of continuing that mission, today I’m excited to announce our $6M fundraise led by DNX Ventures and backed by Wipro Ventures, Nexus Ventures, and Chiratae Ventures. We’re also pleased to announce the addition of DNX and Q Motiwala to our Board of Directors.

EFS Monitoring with Datadog

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the key EFS metrics you should monitor, and in Part 2 we showed you how you can use tools from AWS and Linux to collect and alert on EFS metrics and logs. Monitoring EFS in isolation, however, can lead to visibility gaps as you try to understand the full context of your application’s health and performance.

Compliance in your Database DevOps pipeline - continuous classification with SQL Data Catalog

Keeping classifications up to date across a constantly evolving structured data landscape is a difficult task, however it can become part of your DevOps process instead of simply offering further red tape to your development teams. Join Chris Unwin, a solution engineer at Redgate Software, to see how you can include SQL Data Catalog within your upstream DevOps process so that nothing in your Production environments is ever without classification.

Why Do You Need to Document Your Microsoft Azure Usage?

As the adoption to cloud expand, subscribing and provisioning resources increases day by day. Enterprises have multiple strategies to implement their cloud deployments: single cloud, private cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid cloud. There is a need to analyse and assess on regular basis to keep a watch on the usage to ensure expenditure on the cloud resources are efficient and there is no wastage. There are various possibilities but will need some level of technical competence and regular maintenance.

End to End Tracking for Azure Integration Solutions

In any integration solution, when many Azure services come together to communicate with each other, there is a need for the organizations to build an end-to-end traceability/monitoring solution that can be used by the business users and IT support. Perform end-to-end message tracking and capturing necessary data on business process flow across Azure resources and hybrid integrations. Consider an organisation that has a well-defined Employee Onboarding process.